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Canada / NL / GbBn-2 (Ticoralak 2) / GSC-1179
- Lab number
- GSC-1179
- Field number
- CMC- 315
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Locality
- on the east side of an elevated beach sequence, 9.5 m asl, west side of Ticoralak Island, Groswater Bay, Hamilton Inlet, Labrador
- Map sheet
- 13 J/08
- Submitter
- W.W. Fitzhugh
- Date submitted
- June 27, 0097
- Measured Age
- 2660 ± 140
- Normalized Age
- 2690 ± 140
- δ13C (per mil)
- -23.1
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo, Groswater Dorset; Paléoesquimau, Dorsétien Groswater
- Context
- composite sample from 1.8 m diameter area, 2.5-7.5 cm depth
- Comments
- GbBn-2, Ticoralak 2: A series of Dorset camps in the area are apparently related to relic beach levels. The cultural deposit at GbBn-2 is only 2.5-5 cm thick, with charcoal distributed from within 2.5 cm of the surface to sterile gravel below. Fitzhugh finds GSC-1179 earlier than expected but consistent with other radiocarbon dated sites in the area, and it is the highest of three dated sites on raised beaches at Ticoralak. The small sample of tools makes cultural comparison difficult. The site is most significant for anchoring the early end of the local Dorset sequence and in demonstrating its early presence in Labrador. It appears to represent an early expansion of Dorset to the central and southern Labrador coast from its ancestral pre-Dorset culture in northern Labrador.